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Monday, April 23, 2007

Five Years Old

My first childhood crush occurred when I was five.

Like many gals before me, I fell for the musician types. Well, a boy band to be exact. And as far as boy bands went, this particular group fulfilled all of the major requirements: pretty faces, long hair, the ability to belt out sappy tunes and ridiculous fashion sense. It didn't hurt that they were of Scottish persuasion either. My adoration of all things British went far back.

The Bay City Rollers had that sort of appeal that only teenage girls and wide-eyed toddlers could appreciate. I was no exception. Their greatest hits collection was one of my most prized possessions. When they came to Toronto in 1977, there was pandemonium in the city.

Mind you, I used to also enjoy Big Bird's "Sleepy Time" album back then (one of the classiest albums I own to date). The Bay City Rollers, however, remained tops in my book, especially during that kindergarten era.

I get emotional listening to some of their music, because it takes me right back.

When I was 5, it was 1958. I think that might be the year we got the TV. I got to watch cartoons and kids shows like Romper Room.

My first crush was when I was 5, but he was a real life boy in my kindergarten class. I chased him around the classroom, but had no idea what I would do if I caught him. I was only 5, after all, and a lot less sophisticated than 5 year olds even 10 or 15 years later.

He's a doctor now and his mother (his parents and my parents became friends) reminded me a few years ago how Keith used to come home from kindergarten and complain about the girl who kept chasing him. I'll never live that down.

First celebrity crushes came later: Ricky Nelson, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, and then, a bit later, when I was 11, David "Illya Kuryakin" McCallum, and musically, Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits and George Harrison of The Beatles.

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"The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, of being only four years old."—Christopher Morley, To a Child

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